The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
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My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.
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The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
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The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
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I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
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